These days fly by on ragged wings, crow-black,
On winds that blow beneath bleak northern suns,
And once-dry stream with rushing water runs
In autumn flood; banks sink and branches crack.
You look behind at all that ran before,
The bright light dancing at the jetty’s end
That shone for someone else; here half-lights blend,
And in their changing depths lies something more.
It ran away, the past, and now it seems
The river’s strewn with dead things, yet the light
Shows water washes pebbles dazzled bright;
The river never dies, no more do dreams.
LIVING THE DREAM 